Re: Floor repair question 17' Sunray
Huge thank you to all for your replies. They are much appreciated I assure you. This topic was my first post to the iBoats forums. I'm new to the whole boat thing (been a car guy all my life so far) and will appreciate some advice along the way in regards to boats. After reading the responses the decision really comes down to common sense.
The deal with this boat is it belongs to my GF. It was one of the few things she came out of a split with a couple of years back. It was used by a friend of hers for one season but no maintenance done to it, then it sat for a season until I came along and said, "Hey, a boat! Cool let's make it go!"
The boat is not worth much as far as boats go, at least not in the condition that it is in, so I think the most reasonable thing to do at this point is to just get it in the water and enjoy it for a bit because if I am going to go through all the trouble of redoing the floor, then I'm going to want to redo the whole boat; something along the line of what Tallcanadian did with his boat as I think it would be a really cool project. I checked the pics. Turned out very nice by the way TC! This boat I'm dealing with is a 1977 or 78 S140. There doesn't seem to be any info on these boats on the net so if someone knows anything about them please fill me in!
This boat needs to be rewired which I can do in an afternoon and it also needs seats. I have two cheap but brand new seats that will bolt in. As far as the motor goes, it is a Johnson 55 HP. I want to put a new pump and prop seal on it and looking at the engine wiring harness, it could use a new one of those which fortunately looks available for about $80. I attached a couple of pics of the floor to give an idea of what I'm talking about. Hopefully they turn out.
